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A Luminous Halo: Selected Writings by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
- ISBN: 978-1-961368-21-7
- First published: 1929
- Publication date: 2025
"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
A Luminous Halo presents a small collection of critical writings by a titanic figure in feminist literary history: the one and only Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). From "Modern Fiction" to "How Should One Read a Book," "The Mark on the Wall," and more, these works are essential for any [common] reader hoping to "explore the ideas and challenges that ignited Woolf’s creative imagination—to dig into all the 'proper stuff' of life and art." Here they come together in one volume for the first time, selected and introduced by guest editor JoAnn Borri.
This book is sponsored by and created in partnership with The Sitting Room Library in Penngrove, California. Home to the "Woolf Wall," extensive archives related to Woolf and other women writers, and thousands of books, The Sitting Room is dedicated to literature and art by women.
Cover illustration: "View from the studio at Monk's House" by Mariana Matos
Foreword, Guest Editor: JoAnn Borri lives in Northern California. Her vocations are reading, writing and gardening. She is the curator of the Woolf Wall at the Sitting Room Library in Penngrove, CA.
Cover: Mariana Matos is an interdisciplinary designer based in Detroit, MI. She is the Communications & Design Coordinator for Cita Press.